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In the standard (classic) approach, galaxy clustering measurements from spectroscopic surveys are compressed into baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions measurements, which in turn can be compared to cosmological…

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Likelihood fitting to two-point clustering statistics made from galaxy surveys usually assumes a multivariate normal distribution for the measurements, with justification based on the central limit theorem given the large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Mike Shengbo Wang , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Robert Crittenden , Davide Bianchi

Neural simulation-based inference (SBI) is a popular set of methods for Bayesian inference when models are only available in the form of a simulator. These methods are widely used in the sciences and engineering, where writing down a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-15 Yuga Hikida , Ayush Bharti , Niall Jeffrey , François-Xavier Briol

We present a new algorithm for identifying superbubbles in HI column density maps of both observed and simulated galaxies that has only a single adjustable parameter. The algorithm includes an automated galaxy-background separation step to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Brock Wallin , Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit

We demonstrate that observations lacking reliable redshift information, such as photometric and radio continuum surveys, can produce robust measurements of cosmological parameters when empowered by clustering-based redshift estimation. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Ely D. Kovetz , Alvise Raccanelli , Mubdi Rahman

Many scientific models are composed of multiple discrete components, and scientists often make heuristic decisions about which components to include. Bayesian inference provides a mathematical framework for systematically selecting model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Cornelius Schröder , Jakob H. Macke

Simulations are the best approximation to experimental laboratories in astrophysics and cosmology. However, the complexity, richness, and large size of their outputs severely limit the interpretability of their predictions. We describe a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Kai L. Polsterer , Bernd Doser , Andreas Fehlner , Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez

We use higher-redshift gamma-ray burst (GRB), HII starburst galaxy (HIIG), and quasar angular size (QSO-AS) measurements to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models. These three sets of cosmological constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Shulei Cao , Joseph Ryan , Narayan Khadka , Bharat Ratra

We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

We compare the constraints from two (2019 and 2021) compilations of HII starburst galaxy (HIIG) data and test the model-independence of quasar angular size (QSO) data using six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Shulei Cao , Joseph Ryan , Bharat Ratra

The increasing statistical precision of photometric redshift surveys requires improved accuracy of theoretical predictions for large-scale structure observables to obtain unbiased cosmological constraints. In $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 P. Rogozenski , E. Krause , V. Miranda

The overlap of galaxy surveys and CMB experiments presents an ideal opportunity for joint cosmological dataset analyses. In this paper we develop a halo-model-based method for the first joint analysis combining these two experiments using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Xiao Fang , Elisabeth Krause , Tim Eifler , Simone Ferraro , Karim Benabed , Pranjal R. S. , Emma Ayçoberry , Yohan Dubois , Vivian Miranda

Upcoming spectroscopic galaxy surveys are extremely promising to help in addressing the major challenges of cosmology, in particular in understanding the nature of the dark universe. The strength of these surveys comes from their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Lanusse , A. Rassat , J. -L. Starck

Asymmetry in the spatially integrated, 1D HI global profiles of galaxies can inform us on both internal (e.g. outflows) and external (e.g. mergers, tidal interactions, ram pressure stripping) processes that shape galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 M. Glowacki , N. Deg , S. L. Blyth , N. Hank , R. Davé , E. Elson , K. Spekkens

Simulation-based inference (SBI) enables Bayesian analysis when the likelihood is intractable but model simulations are available. Recent advances in statistics and machine learning, including Approximate Bayesian Computation and deep…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-15 Haoyu Jiang , Yuexi Wang , Yun Yang

The current generation of large galaxy surveys will test the cosmological model by combining multiple types of observational probes. Realising the statistical promise of these new datasets requires rigorous attention to all aspects of…

The effective-field theory based full-shape analysis with simulation-based priors (EFT-SBP) is the novel analysis of galaxy clustering data that allows one to combine merits of perturbation theory and simulation-based modeling in a unified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Shu-Fan Chen , Mikhail M. Ivanov

We propose a new, likelihood-free approach to inferring the primordial matter power spectrum and cosmological parameters from arbitrarily complex forward models of galaxy surveys where all relevant statistics can be determined from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Florent Leclercq , Wolfgang Enzi , Jens Jasche , Alan Heavens

Neural simulation-based inference (SBI) describes an emerging family of methods for Bayesian inference with intractable likelihood functions that use neural networks as surrogate models. Here we introduce sbijax, a Python package that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Simon Dirmeier , Antonietta Mira , Carlo Albert

Super-sample covariance (SSC) is an important effect for cosmological analyses that use the deep structure of the cosmic web; it may, however, be nontrivial to include it practically in a pipeline. We solve this difficulty by presenting a…